We must consider how very little history there is, I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture. Dr. Johnson. Truth is liable to be left-handed in history. Dumas, Père. It is when the hour of the conflict is over that history comes to a right understanding of the strife, and is ready to exclaim, "Lo, God is here, and we knew him not!"— Bancroft. All history is a lie! Sir R. Walpole. At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet. — Carlyle. Each generation gathers together the imperishable children of the past, and increases them by new sons of light, alike radiant with immortality. - Bancroft. The great events of Greek and Roman fable and history, which early education and the usual course of reading have made familiar and interesting to all Europe, without being degraded by the vulgarisms of ordinary life. Sir Joshua Reynolds. History, in whatever way it may be executed, is a great source of pleasure. Pliny the Younger. To some history is only a grammar study; to others the very anatomy of philosophy, by which the most secret and abstruse parts of our human nature are penetrated into.-Montaigne. What is history but a fable agreed upon?— Napoleon I. It is for homely features to keep home; they cal; first, Homer, who in the person of Agahad their name there. - Milton. memnon ensampled a good governor and a virtuous man. - Spenser. The Iliad is great, yet not so great, in strength or power or beauty, as the Greek Trench. Stint yourself, as you think good, in other things; but don't scruple freedom in brightening home. Gay furniture and a brilliant garden are a sight day by day, and make life blither.-language. Charles Buxton. The first sure symptom of a mind in health is rest of heart, and pleasure felt at home. Young. To most men their early home is no more than a memory of their early years, and I'm Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and variety of his characters. Every god that is admitted into his poem acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity. - Addison. Homer excels all the inventors of other arts not sure but they have the best of it. The in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of image is never marred. There's no disappoint-those who succeeded him. - Pope. ment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.-George Eliot. Homer shall last, like Alexander, long; as much recorded, and as often sung. - Granville. Integrity gains strength by use. Tillotson. Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pre-esty must first be gotten, which cannot be but cozenage; and therefore the reputation of hontension is nothing and power is everything. Whipple. The most plain, short, and lawful way to any good end is more eligible than one directly contrary in some or all of these qualities. · Swift. An honest man 's the noblest work of God.Pope. With respect to morals, honesty is like to gain little by philosophy, or deep speculation of any kind. In the main it is better to stick to common sense, and go no farther. Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second, their natural notions better than those refined by study, or consultation with casuists. - Shaftesbury. by living well. - Ben Jonson. Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness, all in one. Richardson. Honesty starves on universal praise. Juvenal. Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. - Addison. Honors are bequeathed, but not the good or evil deeds, or the talents by which they were obtained. Marryat. When about to commit a base deed, respect As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, thyself, though there be no witness.-Ausonius. so honor peereth in the meanest habit. To contemn all the wealth and power in the world, where they stand in competition with a man's honor, is rather good sense than greatness of mind. Steele. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shakspeare. Honor is unstable, and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those who are, of all beings, the most subject to change.—Colton. Honor's a lease for life to come. Shakspeare. Honor hath three things in it, the vantage ground to do good, the approach to kings and principal persons, and the raising of a man's own fortunes. - Bacon. True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn. Massinger. A wise Providence consoles our present afflic tions by joys borrowed from the future. Hosea Ballou. It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.-Dr. Johnson. The iris pencil of Hope. -Beaconsfield. The great world's altar-stairs, that slope through darkness up to God. Tennyson. Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. Sir Walter Scott. True hope is based on the energy of character. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. Such a spirit too rests upon itself; it is not confined to partial views or to one particular object. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself. Von Knebel. Hope is a good breakfast, but an idle supper. Bacon. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. - Longfellow. That star on life's tremulous ocean. Moore. Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing. Why should not hope as much erect our The hope of all earnest souls must be thoughts as fear deject them? realized. Whittier. Balzac. Sir J. Denham. Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating. having one lively spark of hope in my heart, My spirits are not yet forfeited to despair, because God is even where he was before. Thomas Fuller. If love live on hope, it dies with it; it is a fire which goes out for want of fuel. — Hope never spreads her golden wings but on unfathomable seas. Emerson. I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate in reversion, if one can keep from the temptation of turning it into certainty, which may spoil all. - George Eliot. Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician. Von Knebel. Corneille. |